Dorikka comments on Collating widely available time/money trades - Less Wrong

17 Post author: RyanCarey 19 November 2012 10:57PM

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Comment author: Dorikka 20 November 2012 03:53:16AM 2 points [-]

I'm afraid that I'm entirely failing to grok what you mean with the "sex-tax" thing.

Also, I've heard enough stories about drawbacks to polyphasic sleep to conclude that it's probably not a good fit for everyone. Some discussion on LW.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 November 2012 09:45:01PM *  -1 points [-]

I'm afraid that I'm entirely failing to grok what you mean with the "sex-tax" thing.

I think he's considering getting married or something, and having his wife do “boring” things “as cleaning the house” in exchange of sex -- though if I'm right, IMO that's an extremely bizarre way to put it.

Comment author: blashimov 20 November 2012 10:50:52PM 2 points [-]

No, he is saying by buying condoms you avoid the additional work children require. My understanding.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 November 2012 12:20:01AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, that makes sense and explain the "counterfactual" part, which had eluded me.

Comment author: diegocaleiro 21 November 2012 04:12:43AM 0 points [-]

hahah, the papers on happiness which beep people asking how happy they feel durigna activities average the same amount of happiness for time spent with one's children and time spent cleaning the house.

Comment author: diegocaleiro 21 November 2012 04:16:19AM 0 points [-]

Getting married actually increases happiness by an ammount I forgot. I was talking about children and beeps as you can see in a comment of mine below.